ESA business incubator opens in Portugal
ESA's latest Business Incubation Centre has opened in Portugal, ready to help entrepreneurs and start-up companies take space technology and services into non-space areas such as health, transport a ... more
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Atomic timekeeping, on the go
What time is it? The answer, no matter what your initial reference may be - a wristwatch, a smartphone, or an alarm clock - will always trace back to the atomic clock.
The international stan ... more
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Largest carbon credit programme poised for quality label
Kids study in overheated slum as Philippines shuts schools
IncreasingAfrican tropical forest fires linked to climate change and deforestation
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China Exclusive: China developing Mars rover
After successfully putting the "Jade Rabbit" lunar rover on the moon, Chinese space experts say the country's planned Mars vehicle will be larger, tougher and a better climber.
On Tuesday, a r ... more
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ADS primes ESA's CHEOPS to detect and classify exoplanets
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has become the prime contractor for the CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) satellite, the first small type mission of ESA ... more
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Primordial galaxy bursts with starry births
Peering deep into time with one of the world's newest, most sophisticated telescopes, astronomers have found a galaxy - AzTEC-3 - that gives birth annually to 500 times the number of suns as the Mil ... more
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Application of NASA Earth Science for Planning in African Union Nations
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Patricia Haslach, and U.S. Ambassador to the African Union (AU) Reuben Brigety, met this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss reso ... more
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Wanted: Ideas for Transform Planes into "Aircraft Carriers in the Sky"
Military air operations typically rely on large, manned, robust aircraft, but such missions put these expensive assets-and their pilots-at risk. While small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can reduc ... more
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